374 KENTISH BOTANY. [December, 



the next field, and probably in the third from Bexley Heath, 

 Ai^noseris pusilla "O'ill be seen. If not in the field, it will probably 

 be found about the borders. 



Clean culture is detrimental to the botanist ; although it be 

 agreeable to see the evidences of care and the promise of success. 



One of the remarks we made was that the officinal Poppy, 

 Papaver somniferum, was extending its area. In some fields 

 through which we passed it is now as plentiful as it has been for 

 many years near Greenhithe. The scarcity of Adonis autumna- 

 lis, of which we only saw a single specimen in our long walk of 

 the 12th of July, several miles of which was through corn- 

 fields, is attributable to the season. The plant is both vernal and 

 autumnal ; it is plentiful in the very beginning and in the end of 

 summer. We were too late for the spring state of this rare spe- 

 cies and too early for the autumnal. I have seen it, many years 

 ago, in considerable quantities in the stubble, on fields between 

 Crayford and Dartford. 



Apera Spica-venti was plentiful this year (1861), in a corn- 

 field between Dartford Heath and Bexley village. 



We were well satisfied with the results of this day^s excur- 

 sion, and hope that it may be the precursor of many more 

 equally agreeable and successful. One of the objects of our 

 ambition is to convey to the readers of the ' Phytologist ' a 

 sample of the vegetable riches of this county, which is, with the 

 exception of a few limited spots, a terra incognita to the majo- 

 rity of English botanists. A. B. 



Juli/ 26, 1861. 



Additional Remarks on the Botany of Kent. 

 To the Editor of the ' Phytologist.'' 



Sir, — Much of the district traversed by your correspondents, 

 and commented upon by them, in the articles on Kentish Botany, 

 in recent numbers of the ' Phytologist,' being familiar to me, I 

 take the liberty of sending you a few remarks on the subject, pre- 

 mising, however, that I have no novelty to record, no distin- 

 guished stranger to announce. 



The first plant I allude to, Dipsacus pilosus (which I have 

 known in the spot you describe, near Canterbury, for at least 



